Chandelier for gas-lamps.



G. W. OASSIDY. GHANDELIER FOR GAS LAMPS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, 1910.

Patented Sept. 27, 1910.

smNcraN, 04 c GEORGE W. CASSIDY, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TOCASSIDY 82; SON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATIONOF NEW YORK.

CHANDELIER FOR GAS-LAMPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 27, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonen WV. CAssinY, a citizen of the United States,residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Ghandeliers forGas-Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

The object I have in view is to produce a chandelier for carryinginverted mantle gas lamps which will be ornamental in appearance andcheap to construct, and particularly, while provided with separate pilotlights for the lamps, will have the tubes supplying the pilot lightsinclosed within the ornamental shell of the fixture and hidden fromsight, and which chandelier will be provided with readily accessibleseparate valves for adjustment and extinguishment of the pilot lights,and will also have compact and effective means for controlling the mainsupply valve.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a top View of a two arm fixtureembodying my invention, with the upper part of the body shell removedand the main stem of the fixture in section; Fig. 2 is a verticalsection through the body and arm shells of the same fixture; Fig. 3 is afull size seetional view in horizontal plane of the fitting at the endof one of the arms; and Fig. i is a vertical section of the arm fittingon line 4, l, of Fig. 3.

The gas fixture is provided with the usual gas body 5, from whichproject the two or more gas arms 6. Between the main stem gas pipe 7 andthe body 5 is located a fitting 8 containing the main valve 9, and abovethis valve the fitting 8 is provlded with distributing nipples 10 forthe pilot light tubes, one for each arm of the fixture. The body of thefixture is inclosed in an ornamental shell composed of upper and lowersections 11, 12, and a central ring 13, with which the lower shell 12may be formed integral. The ends of the arms 6 are provided with monitorfittings 14: of ornamental design and the arms are covered by ornamentaltubes 15, which enter the ring 13 at their inner ends and at their outerends rest a ainst shoulders 16 on the fittings 14. The

mam valve 9, which controls the gas su ply to the two or more arms ofthe fixture, is provided with a grooved wheel 17, over which passes achain 18, the ends of the chain extending through openings in the bodyshell 12 for the operation of the valve. The chain is held in thegrooved wheel by a pin 19, which passes through the flanges of the wheelwith a close fit and engages the links of the chain. The main valve isoperated by pulling one or the other end of the chain and rotating thewheel 17. This means for operating the main valve is exceedingly compactand simple and gives an equal and parallel pull in all positions of thevalve.

Connected with each of the distributing nipples 10 is a small gas tube20, which extends downwardly from the nipple and enters the spacebetween an arm pipe 6 and the inclosing ornamental tube 15, and passingthrough this space is tapped into the end of the monitor fitting 1%inside of the shoulder 16. In the monitor fitting, where the pilot lighttube 20 enters is a channel 21, which extends out through the side ofthe fitting and receives a small valve fitting 22, provided with a valveseat 23. Cooperating with this valve seat is a valve formed by thepointed end of a screw 24, which screws laterally into the fitting 22.Extending downwardly from the fitting 22 is a small tube 25, having areduced end 26, which is adapted to receive a similarly small tubeextending down into the gas lamp, for presenting a pilot light in properrelation to the mantle of the lamp. The central channel 27 of themonitor fitting lt is connected with the arm pipe 6 and opens throughthe lower side of the fitting, where it receives the nipple 28 forsupporting the gas lamp. Each of the fixture arms is preferably providedwith a gas cock 29.

The main valve 9 controls all of the gas arms of the chandelier, whilethe arm cocks 29 control the separate arms. valves 24 are readilyaccessible so that the pilot lights can be separately adjusted orextinguished. The pilot light tubes 20, being entirely inclosed withinthe ornamental shell of the chandelier, do not interfere with the designor ornamental appearance of the chandelier as a whole.

What I claim is:

1. In a chandelier for gas lamps having a plurality of arms, thecombination with an arm pipe, of a monitor fitting on the end of suchpipe, an ornamental tube covering the arm pipe and engaging the monitorfitting The pilot and a pilot light tube tapped into the monitor fittinginside of the ornamental covering tube, substantially as set forth.

2. In a chandelier for gas lamps having a plurality of arms, thecombination with an arm pipe and an ornamental covering tube, of amonitor fitting on the end of the arm pipe, a pilot light tube enteringthe monitor fitting inside of the ornamental covering tube, and a valvefitting on the side of the monitor fitting connected with the pilotlight tube, substantially as set forth.

3. I11 a chandelier for gas lamps, the combination with the main stem,gas body and a plurality of gas pipe arms, of monitor fittings on theends of the gas pipe arms, ornamental tubes covering the gas pipe armsand engaging the monitor fittings, a main gas valve in the stem of thechandelier controlling all the arms, pilot light tubes connected withthe stem beyond the main valve extending through the ornamental coveringtubes to the ends of the separate arms and tapped into the monitorfittings inside such ornamental covering tubes and valves on the sidesof the monitor fittings for separately controlling the pilot lights,substantially as set forth.

4. In a chandelier for gas lamps, the combination with an arm pipe, of amonitor fitting on the outer end of the arm pipe, having a main gaschannel connected with the arm pipe and provided with a nipple forsupporting the gas lamp at right angles to the arm pipe, a pilot lighttube entering the inner end of the monitor fitting and com municatingwith a channel inside of the fitting opening laterally out of suchfitting, and a pilot valve fitting secured to the side of the monitorfitting and provided with a screw valve and with a nipple for the pilotlight tube extending to the gas lamp, substantially as set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this Hth day of March, 1910.

GEORGE IV. CASSIDY.

Vitnesses JOHN L. LOTSCH, J. F. COLEMAN.

